WHY YOUR STOMACH HURTS.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2177, 17 June 1914, Page 5

WHY YOUR STOMACH HURTS.

•A. DOCTOR'S COMMON-SENSE ■ •;■■■. ADVICE. : . Pain in the. stomach, -Tariouslv called indigestion, dyspepsia; flatulence;' heartburn, .stom-acli-nche,' etc.,, is. usually attributed to some unnatural, abnormal or djseased condition 01" Hi? stomach ihsclf. Nothing. hpwever, could be--further from the truth.' Nineteen - times out of'twenty the stomach is absolutely healthy and normal, the ,nam-..and. discomfort'lieing. entirely, due to the, acidity and fermentation of. food, which irritate? aiid distends the .stomach; although if this;condition is jllowed to run on, in time .the. constantirritation of the acid is likely. to eat into the stomach walls and produce sul.cers and sometimes cancer.of the stomach:' Medicine, lVuseless in such 'a' case.' The' acidand fermenting food must lie'removed by' o stomach pump,or an emetic,-or you must neutralise the acid and stop tho fermen-' tation bv takinc half a- teaspoonful of hisurated magnesia in a- little water. This latter is bv -far the simpler and safer method. Bisurated moencsia almost immediately neutralises the dangerous' acid end by correcting tlie food contents en. able? even a tired., weak-stomach to digest almost-any .food without any difficulty. Tlivsir-i-ips adyi-'e that bisurntrd ma»nes ; a should be kept iit every home, and a little taken after each menl whenever, the slightest 'eudency to fond ferpentat'Or is' f.-hown. Be- sure to obtain bisurated masriysia, as other forms of mncrpesia are <-aliiat>'-? as tooth and moiil-b washes, but they do Tiot eive satisfactory results in stomach disorders.—Advt. _ .